Archives for February 10, 2007

Gaustad is scheduled to have surgery on Tuesday. Even if the surgery goes extremely well, Sabres’ doctors ruled out any chance of the Fargo, North Dakota native returning this season; even if the Sabres make a deep run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

‘Local coverage of the Buffalo Sabres was a public relations man’s dream during the first full week of the February sweeps as Channel 2 and Channel 7 ran series attempting to personalize the players. “It certainly was,” said Michael Gilbert, the Sabres director of public relations. The series weren’t totally alike, but both had stories on Ryan Miller and Brian Campbell.’

'In his first season — 1999 — the Sabres went all the way to the Stanley Cup final. Ruining the party was Brett Hull's overtime tally — with, infamously, a foot in the crease — which made champions of the Dallas Stars. "No goal," Warrener was steadfastly maintaining the other day. "I mean, that's probably the one I still think about the most. I still think about it laying in bed."'

‘”Pittsburgh is a center where they diagnose concussions but the program they have at the University at Buffalo is the first of its kind anywhere in the country,” Connolly said. “There were some other issues that weren’t discovered until a couple months ago with my neck and jaw. When those were found and taken care of, it sped the process along.”‘